NonFiction ~~- How To Market Your Creative Work

Ideas For Selling Your Script

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Offer a reasonable day's wage to the development reader who works for a producer to whom you'd like to get your script.
She'll either take your money and give you coverage that will help you polish your script, or she'll forward your script to her producer.
Either way, you win.
Especially, look up actors who have production companies.
Go right to their development people, bypassing the actor's agent.

Vacation at writer's retreats.
Join a writer's group.

TRY READING: DAILY VARIETY, Hollywood Reporter, Scr(i)pt, NY Screenwriter, Written By, Creative Screenwriting, Hollywood Creative Directory, HollywoodLitSales, IMDB, DGA Member directory, WGA Member Directory, Baseline.

At Daily Variety check Facts On Pacts.
Especially look for news of any players who have voiced an interest in the subject of your script.

Always remember: Someone, somewhere is looking for exactly what you have to offer.

Check out Kagan's film revenues and cost estimates to find out what a film like yours might cost, and recoup.

Send your un-produced script to IFFCON, the International Film Financing Conference that happens every year in San Fransisco.